Winter 2013 - Materials Science and Engineering at Illinois

College of Engineering
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Winter 2013
Self-Organization
at the Nanoscale
Self-organized nanostructures
possess properties that
improve material’s
performance such as
wear resistance
In this issue:
Welcome new faculty members
Scholarship pays tribute to
MatSE alumna
Celebrating alumni and
student achievement
Greetings from Urbana
MatSE Alumni News
Department of Materials
Science and Engineering
David Cahill
Department Head
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Cindy Brya
MatSE Alumni News Editor
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Letters, comments, and
newsletter submissions:
MatSE Alumni News
Department of Materials
Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
201B MSEB, MC-246
1304 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-8312
[email protected]
www.matse.illinois.edu
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Cover Figure:
Spontaneous nanolayering in
Cu90Ag10 alloy subjected to
dry sliding wear. The layering
is revealed by Z-contrast
scanning transmission electron
microscopy. Ag precipitates,
originally equiaxed, evolved
into nanolayers, which improve
wear resistance (Courtesy of
Dr. Fuzeng Ren).
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One of the perks of being the department head is that I get to meet dozens of highly-accomplished
and supportive alumni. We inevitably get to talking about the goals of the department and how the
alumni can help us achieve those goals.
Simply put, our goals are to educate the world’s best materials scientists and engineers, to produce
the world’s best scholarship in the field of materials science and engineering, and to translate our accomplishments in education and research into societal impact. I think that, by any measure, we are doing
well in all three areas. Financial support from the campus and College of Engineering is currently strong,
but within the next several years, private giving by individuals, foundations, and corporations will become
ever more critical for further improving the high quality of our education and research programs.
Private giving helps us in three main ways: accessibility, student engagement, and excellence
of faculty scholarship. We feel strongly that all students of talent and commitment should be able
to afford a MatSE education. The department currently grants $130k per year in scholarships and
awards. Many students, however, have extensive unmet financial need. Growth of the endowed
scholarship funds will allow us to meet a larger fraction of financial need in combination with
College of Engineering and campus grants.
Donations to the department support many of the out-of-the-classroom experiences that are so
important in creating the hands-on education for which Engineering at Illinois is known. The department
operates 7 instructional laboratories that serve more than 200 students each year. Endowments for the
labs will allow us to improve instruction by hiring additional staff and expand course offerings. Major gifts
for purchase of equipment will enable us to make available tools, e.g., 3D printing, that can be used for
instruction and design. Donations to the annual fund support student-led project teams and the professional development activities of our student societies.
The excellence of faculty scholarship is tightly coupled to the excellence of the Ph.D. candidates
enrolled in the department. A major gift from Don Hamer helps us recruit top students by providing
supplemental fellowships to incoming Ph.D. students. Building on this foundation of endowment for
fellowships will enable us to provide continuing support and to impact a larger number of students. We
have made tremendous progress in updating the venerable Materials Science and Engineering Building
but much remains to be done. Major gifts for lab renovations will allow us to create world-class research
space for faculty and students.
I would like to extend a special thank you to the alumni whose names are listed in the donor recognition section of this newsletter. Your gifts help us remain one of the top materials programs in the nation.
To all our alumni, we ask that you remember MatSE in your year-end giving plans.
Sincerely,
David Cahill
Willett Professor and Head
Materials Science and Engineering | Winter 2013
Figure 2 (left): Cu80Nb10Ag10 alloy imaged by scanning electron microscopy after (top, a) fabrication by ball milling and annealing at 600˚C for 1
hour to induce the precipitation of Nb (appearing darker than matrix) and Ag (appearing brighter than the matrix); (bottom, b) and after deformation
by high pressure torsion to a shear strain of 1,500 (Courtesy of Miao Wang).
Figure 3 (top): Cu50Nb50 nanocomposite stabilized by high pressure torsion strains of ≈ 2,000, imaged by atom probe tomography: (left,a)
atomic composition map; (right,b) high density of interfaces delineating the biconnected Cu-rich and Nb-rich phases (Courtesy of Tim Lach).
Nanoscale self-organization in metallic alloys subjected to severe plastic deformation
Metallic alloys are often subjected to plastic deformation,
for instance during fabrication by powder metallurgy
routes, during shaping by rolling, forging, or extrusion,
and in service, in particular when subjected to sliding
contact. Severe plastic deformation imposed by sliding
contact can lead to wear and early failure, in systems
such as bearing materials. In collaboration with Profs.
Averback and Dillon, we have been investigating the
evolution of model metallic alloys in response to severe
plastic deformation at low processing temperatures. We
have identified a new general phenomenon, which is
the tendency of these materials to self-organize at the
nanoscale. Remarkably, these self-organized nanostructures possess properties that may improve the performance of these materials. For instance the nanolayering
illustrated in the Cover Figure leads to an improvement
of the resistance to sliding wear. The formation of fine
scale nanocomposites, see Figure 2, translates into
an increase of interface area per unit volume, which
increases hardness and the capacity for trapping point
defects for nuclear applications.
Our previous research for the past two decades has
established that materials subjected to severe plastic
deformation at elevated temperature can self-organize.
This self-organization results from a competition
between the refinement of the alloy microstructure
imposed by plastic deformation and the coarsening of
the microstructure promoted by thermally activated
diffusion. Our recent work has however shown that
self-organization can even take place at temperatures
where thermally activate diffusion is limited or negligible. This is a surprising result from a fundamental
perspective. It also indicates that self-organization is
a more general phenomenon than previously thought
and that it can be used to design materials with
improved properties. As illustrated, in cases where
severe plastic deformation results from service conditions, self-organization provides in fact a pathway for
materials to spontaneously improve their performance
while in service.
One such example was found in our study of the
wear resistance of model Cu-Ag alloys, where Ag
precipitates are distributed in a Cu matrix. Our research
has shown that, if the initial Ag precipitate size is
within a suitable range, shear deformation imposed by
sliding at room temperature leads to the spontaneous
formation of very thin Ag layers, which persist up to
the sliding surface, see the Cover Figure. In this case,
the wear resistance is measured to be significantly
increased, by a factor 2 to 20 for the conditions we
have explored so far. This work has been supported by
research grants from the National Science Foundation,
and has provided the basis for a new project supported
by the BP-ICAM. One possible area of application is the
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Schleife and Shoemaker join MatSE
Daniel Shoemaker
Andre Schleife
The MatSE Department welcomes two new faculty members in the
2013-14 academic year: Daniel Shoemaker and Andre Schleife.
Andre Schleife received his Ph.D. from Friedrich-Schiller University in
Jena, Germany, in 2010. Schleife’s research is focused on computational
materials science. His group will study excited electronic states and
their dynamics in various materials using computational methods. “My
research will make use of modern super computers in order to understand, for instance, how light is absorbed in photovoltaic materials,”
Schleife said. “Ultimately, I would like to build the knowledge necessary
to design new and better materials for various applications entirely
based on simulations. Admittedly, this is still a great challenge that
requires experimental and theoretical scientists working hand in hand.”
The advantages of computational materials science, according
to Schleife, are that researchers can rely more on simulations in
situations where experiments are very expensive, or as in the case
of radiation-matter interaction, dangerous. He chose the University
of Illinois because of the excellent people and excellent resources.
“Illinois is in the unique position of having the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications with the Blue Waters Super Computer
in-house,” Schleife said. “In other words, this is the ideal place for my
type of research.”
New imaging
system could
lead to breakthroughs in
nanomedicine
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Schleife comes to Illinois from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. His honors include the Heptagon “Sven-Buehling” Prize for
outstanding graduate student research from Friedrich-Schiller University
and the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Outstanding Postdoc
Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
In the spring 2014 semester, he will teach Atomic Scale Simulations
(MSE 485). He is looking forward to training the next generation of
scientists and getting them excited about computational materials
science and its many applications.
Daniel Shoemaker (BS MatSE ’06) received his PhD from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2010. His research group is
focused on materials chemistry, looking to synthesize new inorganic
materials and uncover routes to engineer their response to stimuli.
“By making new crystal structures with functional properties, we expand
the library of available materials to drive innovation, make devices, and
alter the landscape of sustainability and energy security,” Shoemaker said.
“We are building a synthesis laboratory where we use real-time x-ray and
optical techniques to probe how new electronic, magnetic, and optical
materials can be grown at low temperatures from liquids.”
Half of his group’s work is application-driven and the other half
concerns the mechanisms. “We love to test theoretical predictions by
hunting down computationally proposed compounds, making them,
and explaining their properties,” he said. Shoemaker joined the MatSE
faculty in August, following a postdoctoral appointment in the Materials
Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory. His honors include
the Graduate Student Gold Award from the Materials Research Society
and the 23rd Louis Rosen Thesis Prize from the Los Alamos Neutron
Scattering Center.
He is teaching Synthesis of Materials (MSE 403) in the fall semester
and Microstructure Characterization (MSE 405) in the spring. Shoemaker
is excited to return to the University of Illinois as a member of the MatSE
faculty. “As professors we provide instruction and guidance, but real learning and achievement happens in the minds and hands of the students.
That’s where the exciting progress is found,” he said.
A $300,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has made possible the purchase of a live animal imaging system
on the UIUC campus. The new system will primarily be used by campus researchers in the area of nanomedicine.
“The live animal imaging system provides the ultimate combination of sensitivity, speed and flexibility to meet
the most demanding challenges for molecular and nanomedicinal in vivo imaging,” said Jianjun Cheng, the principal
investigator for the grant-funded project.
According to Cheng, the in vivo quantitative assessment of molecular or nanoparticular signals in live animal
in real time is extremely challenging but absolutely necessary. “The imaging system is designed for demanding
requirements for high sensitivity luminescence, fluorescence, radiographic and X-ray imaging, and will enable the
precise and quantitative assessment of targeting efficiency” he said.
In addition to the proposed work to develop orthogonal chemistry mediated cancer targeting, the new imaging system
will be used in many other projects by Cheng and his co-PIs. These include aptamer-nanomedicine targeting, in vivo siRNA
and gene delivery, dual functional theranostic nanomedicine, and more. The new imaging system will also be available to
the many research groups on the UIUC campus that have active research projects involving live animal imaging.
Co-PI’s on the project include Yi Lu, Department of Chemistry; Timothy Fan, College of Veterinary Medicine;
William Helferich, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition; and Wawrzyniec Laurence Dobrucki,
Department of Bioengineering.
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Dillon receives CAREER Award to study light-absorbing photocatalysts
Shen Dillon
Nanoscale
self-organization,
continued
Engineering Communications Office
Efficiently converting sunlight and water into hydrogen—
through a process called “photolysis”—is an attractive
approach to producing “green” fuels that could support
the future U.S. economy. Shen Dillon has recently
received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award
to provide an improved scientific basis for designing
efficient and inexpensive nanostructured visible light
absorbing photocatalysts.
“A variety of catalysts have been known to perform
photolysis for several decades, but many remain too
inefficient or expensive for commercial application,”
explained Dillon, whose long-term research vision
includes developing fundamental science underpinning
ceramic-based energy storage and conversion systems.
Photocatalysts may be improved most effectively by
controlling their electronic structure, which depends on
variables such as particle size, shape, chemistry, defect
structure, or their interactions with adjoining materials.
“Our approach seeks to characterize structureproperties-performance relationships for individual
photocatalytic oxide heterojunction nanostructures as
a function of scale,” Dillon added. The study is enabled
by the development of macroscopically supported
geometrically defined single heterojunction nanowires
and quantitative in-situ photocatalysis in the transmission
electron microscope (TEM).
According to Dillon, the project also incorporates a
significant educational component.
“The activity integrates research and education
through a research experience for science education
majors (RESEM) program that will impact K-12 students
through improved teacher experience and education.
Two teachers will participate each year throughout the
five-year project. Special emphasis will be placed on
research experience for undergraduates (REU) during
the academic semesters and developing research-based
teaching methods for undergraduates.
The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early
Career Development (CAREER) Award Program provides
five years of financial support for “junior faculty who
exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of
education and research within the context of the mission
of their organizations.”
Dillon received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and
Engineering from Lehigh University in 2007. Following
graduation, he went to work as a Research Associate
at Carnegie Mellon University and Visiting Professor at
Lehigh University. Dillon spent the 2008 academic year
as a Visiting Research Scientist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology working on materials for energy
storage. He joined the University of Illinois faculty in
2009 and received a Department of Energy Early Career
Award in 2011.
development of high performance bearing materials.
Another case of self-organization has been identified
in Cu-Nb alloys subjected to high-energy ball milling and
to high pressure torsion at room temperature or below.
The former technique is a common powder processing
technique for fabricating alloys with extended solubilities. The second technique is of fundamental interest
as it makes it possible to subject samples to extremely
large and quantifiable strains, up to several thousands.
In the case of alloys with rather low Nb content,
e.g., 10 at. %, it was found that at large strains all Nb
precipitates converge toward an average diameter of
≈ 20 nm, as illustrated in Figure 2b. This length scale
selection is remarkable since the initial microstructure
contains precipitates that are initially much larger, see
Figure 2a. At the same time, the number density of
precipitates increases significantly, and this despite
the fact that the temperature is too low for thermally
activated diffusion to contribute to this phenomenon.
At higher Nb concentration, for instance for equiatomic
composition, deformation of Cu-Nb nanolaminates
by high pressure torsion leads to the spontaneous
formation of three-dimensional nanocomposites, with
a characteristic length scale ≈ 5 to 10 nm, as illustrated
in Figure 3. The resulting high interfacial area makes
this type of nanostructures attractive for trapping point
defects in materials that could be used in advanced
nuclear reactors.
Contributors to this work include Profs. Robert Averback,
Shen Dillon, and Pascal Bellon; post-doc Dr. Fuzeng
Ren; graduate students Miao Wang, Elvan Ekiz, Tim
Lach, Salman Arshad; visiting scholar Prof. Hongyun
Luo (Beihang University, PRC); and external collaborators Prof. Horst Hahn and graduate student Mohsen
Pouryazdan (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
and Dr. Nate Mara (Los Alamos National Laboratories).
The work was funded by NSF-DMR and DOE-BES via the
CMIME EFRC at LANL.
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Department
Notes
John Rogers has been named a permanent member of the
Center for Advanced Study at University of Illinois, the highest
form of academic recognition that can be bestowed on a
member of the faculty. The Center for Advanced Study brings
together scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds and
encourages and rewards excellence in all areas of academic
inquiry. These distinguished academics include among others:
a Nobel Laureate; a National Book Award winner; a MacArthur
Fellow; and a Pulitzer Prize winner, along with many members
of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering.
The following MatSE instructors made the List of Teachers
Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for the spring 2013 semester: Mohamed Aboukhatwa, Les Allen, Andy Ferguson, Nate
Gabrielson, Ken Schweizer, and DallasTrinkle. Nate Gabrielson
achieved the rank of outstanding (top 10% for both overall teaching effectiveness and overall quality of course).
Yuyan Hua and Sam Rappeport were recognized as
outstanding interns by the Research Park at the University
of Illinois. Hua was recognized for Best Entrepreneurial
Leadership in a Startup, and Rappeport was a finalist for
Most Valuable Undergraduate Student in the Research Park.
Ke Yang, Ph.D. student in the Moore group, attended the 15th
National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering, hosted by
Argonne National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab, and led the
group that won the first presentation award.
Mansi Agarwal, Christian Espinoza Santos, Yu-Hao
(Howard) Liu, Sujin Seo, and Zichao Ye were named
Racheff Teaching Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Qian Yi, Brett Krull, and Chunjie Zhang have received 3M
Fellowships.
Aaron Brown is a new Account
Technician in the MatSE
business office. He has a B.S.
in Industrial Technology from
Eastern Illinois University.
Brown started his career
as a Quality Engineer at an
aerospace manufacturer in
Danville, IL, with responsibilities
for Pratt Whitney and Pratt
Aaron Brown
Whitney Canada. After 2 years,
he accepted a position as an Industrial Engineer with FedEX
Ground in Champaign, where his responsibilities included
process/productivity improvement, building layout, and sort
planning. After 5 years with FedEX, he accepted a position
with a large forging operation as a Steel Buyer/Inventory
Specialist. There he worked with companies such as Timken,
Steel Dynamics, and Latrobe Specialty Steel to improve pricing
and lead time on purchased product.
Welcome Back Students!
MatSE welcomed new and returning students by holding departmental picnics
for graduate students (August 21) and undergraduates (September 5). The
weather cooperated for both picnics this year, and everyone had a great time.
On the MatSE Facebook page, alumni
responded to the question,
“What advice would you give
to new MatSE students?”
When the professor says to read something before class,
read it! (Aaron Bentz, BS MatSE ‘13)
Learn how to describe Materials Science because 99%
of people (even professionals in industry) don’t seem to
know what the degree is or what it’s good for. (Andrew
Kieffer, BS MatSE ‘12)
If you are planning to get into aerospace, learn composites
as well as metal. And corrosion. (Gerald ‘Jerry’ Johnson,
BS Met ’62)
Ask as many questions as you can, go to office hours, and
network with your classmates! (Arielle Gross, BS MatSE ’11)
Learn to work effectively in teams, not only for projects but
for homework, studying for tests, etc. Your classmates are
a fantastic resource. (Eddie Edens, BS MatSE ’12)
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Distinguished Merit Award
2013 Loyalty Award
Alumni Awards James Burk (BS Met ’73, MS Met ’74, PhD Met ’77) Miguel Garza Salinas (BS Met ’61)
James Burk has
a long record of
service to the
MatSE Department.
For over 10 years,
he served on the
MatSE Alumni
Board, including a
term as President
of the Board. He is
now an Ex-Officio
member of the
Board and an
active member
James Burk
of the MatSE
Department’s Senior Advisory Committee. He is a
member of the President’s Council of the University
of Illinois, past member of the College of Engineering
Dean’s Club, and an active member of Illinois Connection
with his wife, Barbara, both being lifetime members
of the University of Illinois Alumni Association. He is a
member of Alpha Sigma Mu Society-Illinois Chapter, a
group recognizing outstanding undergraduate academic
achievement. He and Barbara have contributed to the
undergraduate scholarships named for Professors
Bob Bohl and Ian Roberson and to the lecture fund in
memory of Howard Birnbaum. Burk has worked for
McDonnell-Douglas (now Boeing), Shell, Brown and
Root Marine, as well as Amoco (now BP) for the last 23
years. Currently, he is leading the materials and welding
organization, with global responsibility, in the upstream
exploration and production division of BP. Throughout his
40+ year career, he has served the petroleum industry
and other university organizations by being an active
participant on committees and advisory board positions,
holding chairs, vice-chairs or memberships on over 25
Materials, Welding, and Corrosion committees, boards,
educational and conference organizing groups. He is a
member of the API Materials Advisory Board, providing
materials advice on API Standards to the Executive
Committee on Standards-Materials and Equipment
for the Production Department. He has authored or
co-authored twelve papers, presented at various technical conferences, including several keynote addresses,
and received awards for technical achievement in the
materials and welding area.
Miguel Garza
Salinas began
his professional
career at The Grupo
Industrial Alfa, one
of Mexico’s largest
multi-industry
conglomerates. He
had received his
MSc in Industrial
Engineering from
Monterrey Tech in
1963 and his MBA
from the University
Miguel Garza Salinas
of Pennsylvania
in 1966. Thanks to his metallurgy and management
degrees, he led divisions producing oil field forgings,
wear-resistant castings, and stainless steel heat-resistant
castings, and the construction and operation of a
new ductile iron foundry. In 1972, Garza Salinas was
appointed internal consultant for Alfa. He worked as
the Director of Operations and News Casting for Alfa’s
national TV network in Mexico City and as consultant
for several corrugated board plants. He also directed
the construction of corporate offices and headed a
joint venture with International Nickel Co. of Canada for
exploring precious metals all over Mexico. From 1979 to
1991, he was appointed General Director of Nemak to
negotiate a joint venture with Ford Motor Company and
a technical agreement with Fiat to construct and operate
a $200M aluminum foundry. Nemak is now the world’s
largest aluminum foundry in the world with plants in 17
countries. After 30 years with Alfa, Garza Salinas formed
his own housewares ceramic company. He did consulting work in the fields of extending shelf-life of vegetables
and flowers in South America, advised a fresh cut
salad plant and water treatment plants, and bought and
imported used equipment for upgrading chlorine plants.
Four years ago, he joined forces with Basic Resources
Inc. of Knoxville, TN, and incorporated a Mexican joint
venture, BRI Mexico Foundry Solutions to produce and
market aluminum foundry fluxes and consumables
for the fast-growing secondary smelters, aluminum
extruders and die casters. The company has developed a
customer base of about 45 auto parts customers supplying aluminum components to the major automakers for
local and exports markets. The company and blending
facilities are based in Monterrey, Mexico, and have a
sales and distribution office in Central Mexico.
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Distinguished Merit Award
Young Alumnus Award
Dawn White is the Founder,
President, and Chief Technology
Officer of Accio Energy,
an early stage company
engaged in development of
Electrohydrodynamic wind
energy technology. EHD wind
is non-turbine based wind
power with potential to be as
modular as solar panels, very
low in cost, and without the
moving blades that create
noise, flicker and environmental
Dawn White
concerns. At Accio she leads
a small team of scientists and engineers working to understand the
complex fluid mechanics and electrostatics of producing wind energy
using charged droplets instead of turbine blades. Prior to starting
Accio Energy, in January 2000, White founded the VC-backed, Ann
Arbor-based Solidica, Inc. based on the Ultrasonic Consolidation rapid
prototyping process, which she invented and commercialized as
the Form-ation rapid prototyping machine. Before starting Solidica,
she worked in developing and deploying advanced manufacturing
technology at Ford Motor Company where she won Ford Technical
Achievement Awards in 1994, 1995, and 1996. She was also involved
in materials and manufacturing related research at MTS Systems and
the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. She is
currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center
for Manufacturing Sciences. White’s continuous record of commercial
innovation in a range of materials processing and manufacturing
fields, including welding and joining science, metal spray forming,
and rapid prototyping and tooling has resulted in 20 US Patents with
nine additional patents pending. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1986.
In graduate school, Matthew
Meitl worked in John Rogers’
group on a set of new technologies called transfer printing that
use the properties of soft
materials to assemble microscale devices onto non-native
substrates. Those technologies
formed the basis of a start-up
company, Semprius, Inc., which
was spun-out of the University
of Illinois in 2005. Upon his
graduation in 2007, Meitl joined
Matthew Meitl
Semprius as a scientist to apply
transfer printing technologies in the field of Concentrator Photovoltaics.
There he developed highly efficient, cost-effective solar cells that
integrate advanced semiconductor materials with transfer printing
methodologies. He also contributed a method to fabricate concentrating
lens arrays and served as a core member of the world-class engineering
team that produced the Semprius CPV module, the first commercial
module to demonstrate an independently-verified conversion efficiency
greater than one-third. MIT Technology review recognized the Semprius
CPV module as one of the 10 most important emerging technologies of
2012 and Semprius, Inc., as one of the 50 most innovative companies
in 2013. Meitl currently works at Semprius as the technical manager of
solar cell development, interfacing with industry-leading providers of
PV cell materials and helping to drive the Semprius efficiency roadmap
forward. Meitl has coauthored 35 peer reviewed publications and
co-invented more than 20 technologies with patents pending or issued.
He was selected for the NSF and NDSEG Graduate Fellowships and
accepted a Fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation in
2002. He was a recipient of the Racheff-Intel Award and was selected
as a finalist for the Lemelson Illinois Student Inventor Award (2007).
Ferguson recognized for his pioneering work in vaccine development
Chevron Oronite president and IChemE past president,
Des King, presents Andrew Ferguson with the Young
Chemical Engineer of the Year Award.
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Andrew Ferguson has received the Young
Chemical Engineer of the Year Award-North
America from the Institution of Chemical
Engineers (IChemE). The award is in recognition
of his impressive work on thermodynamic
modeling for the development of HIV vaccines.
HIV/AIDS is responsible for the death of
nearly 30 million individuals, with another 34
million infected. In the developed world, HIV
can be managed by expensive antiretroviral
drugs, but a vaccine represents perhaps the
only hope for the impoverished sub-Saharan
nations most severely afflicted. Despite three
decades of effort, an effective vaccine is
unavailable.
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“An impediment to the development of
effective vaccines is the absence of ‘fitness
landscapes’ describing the ability of the virus
to replicate and damage a host as a function of
its DNA sequence,” Ferguson explained. “Such
landscapes could be used to rationally design
vaccines to induce potent immune responses
against vulnerable regions of the virus, and
possibly abort infection altogether.”
Together with his co-workers, Ferguson
confronted this challenge by pioneering a novel
method to translate clinical databases of HIV
sequences into viral fitness landscapes based on
statistical mechanical models typically used to
describe the physics of magnets and fluids.
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MatSE
Scholarships
and Awards
2013-2014
Paul A. Beck Scholarship
Shuo Li
Cullen W. Parmelee
Nicole Ernat
Timothy Chiu
Yanfu Lu
Scholarships
Andrew Erwin
Anna Mast
Andrew Curtis
Samuel Jesse
Tan Nilgianskul
Derek Kwok
Euiyeon Jung
Eric Przybylski
David Limberg
Pengyang Li
Liwei Song
Katharine Mehan
Timothy Lichtenstein
Hongyi Wu
Akshay Murthy
Enjiong Lu
John Smith
Ching-Jui Lu
Hannah Taylor
Brian McDonald
Alexander Trick
Stephanie Nemec
Harry J. Beckemeyer Jr.
Scholarship
Jason Fleischman
Clifton G. Bergeron
Scholarships
Sankalp Kota
Taylor Perez
Kristina Stranski
Louis R. Berner
Scholarships
Michael Katz
Samuel Mo
Sean Murray
Gerson B. Bilow
Scholarship
Michael Szymanski
Robert Bohl Scholarships
Andrew Bettin
Meng Huang
M. Laird and Charisann
Froberg Scholarships
Daniel Roper
Ryan Smith
Cullen W. Parmelee
Tan Shi
International Research
Phillip H. Geil
Scholarship
Daniel Li
Henry E. Grein Jr.
Scholarship
Luke Shi
Donald W. Hamer
Scholarship
Olivia Rogers
Scholarships
William Andrews III
Keiko Kato
Janice Yoshimura
Andrew Zhao
Frederick A. Petersen
Scholarship
Dennis Jones
Norman L. Peterson
Scholarships
Joshua Ayers
Aibar Nurmukhanov
Adriana Schoenfeldt
Zixing Wang
Rui Wang
Jon Wilson
Jun Kit Wong
Yingjie Xiang
Ruoyan Zhang
Aaron Zhao
Yuecheng Zhou
Alfred W. Allen Awards
Pritam Bhattarai
Fang Jiunn Ewe
Zi Yang Kan
Alex Katsulis
Joseph and Wyvona Lane
Nipat Liampisan
Scholarship
Vijay Rajendran
Michael Collins
Carrington Watkins
Akshay Murthy
Robert E. and
Larry D. and Carol Rakers
Ryan Their
Scholarships
Alexander Trick
Steven Shewchuk
Xizhu Wang
Renhan Wang
Ashton Wasserman
You Wu
Otto Sr. and Mildred
Capek Scholarship
Ryan Their
Caterpillar Scholarships
Dominic Bonucci
Seth Cazzell
Jonathan Streufert
Earl J. Eckel Scholarships
Chun-Wei Chang
Yong Bing Chong
Seokhwan Chung
Michael Di Mare
Jonathan Hestroffer
Karen Martin Luetje
Scholarship
Mitchell Bigelow
Ryan Haney
Derek Kwok
Olivia Rogers
Arthur L. Friedberg
Martin Kim
Douglas Hansel
Kevin Moore Memorial
Charles Stovall
Aaron Bentz
Emrys Tennessen
Ian and Victoria
Miheer Munjal
G. Ronald and Margaret
Timothy Ouradnik
Scholarship
H. Morris Scholarship
Shao Mei
Robertson Scholarship
Awards
Kyle Lamson
Laird Froberg Award
Spencer Wells
Janna Eaves
C. M. Wayman
G. Ronald and Margaret
Alex Wendt
Engineering Alumni
Wert Scholarships
Jordan Turner
H. Morris Opportunity
Scholarship
Scholarship
Daisy Fong
Lei Che
James A. Nelson
Tara Cullerton
Scholarship
Yichuan Ding
Nicole Crosby
Materials Science and
Board Award
Sheryl Blair Tipton Award
Parul Koul
Steven Simpkins
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Scholarship pays tribute to Doris Maroney Krumwiede
It wasn’t until his daughter
and granddaughter put
together a memory board
to put on display at his wife
Doris’ funeral that Jack
Krumwiede realized how
Doris had sacrificed her
career for her family. One
photo on the memory board
was a group photo from the
1959-1960 Illini Ceramist,
with Doris, Vic Tennery, Art
Friedberg, and Clif Bergeron.
Ceramics was not Doris’
first choice of college major.
She was very athletic and
wanted to go into physical
Doris Maroney Krumwiede (Photo from the 1959 Illini
education, but scholarships
Ceramist)
were limited. Recognizing
her parents’ financial situation, she enrolled in the
State University of New York
College of Ceramics at Alfred
University. In college, she
remained active in sports,
along with social and honor
societies. Jobs were scarce
in 1958 when she graduated
cum laude. She had enjoyed
a summer spent at IBM’s
Poughkeepsie research lab
and decided she would go to
graduate school.
Jack and Doris met in the
Jack Krumwiede (Photo from the 1959 Illini Ceramist)
Ceramics Department at
the University of Illinois and
completed their master’s degrees the same year. They were married
on June 11, 1960. Jack entered the MBA program, and Doris continued
working in the Ceramics Department. Over the course of two years, she
advanced to the rank of Research Associate while putting her husband
through graduate school. “The Ceramics Department was very kind to
Doris,” Jack said. “They knew she was not a doctoral candidate, yet they
treated her like one.”
By the time Jack finished his MBA, Doris was 8 months pregnant.
“When the time came, because of our generation, my career became
primary and Doris became a mother and a housewife,” Jack said. “It was
taken for granted at that time. She never brought it up.” They left Illinois
for Clarksburg, West Virginia, where Jack took a job with PPG.
He remained with the company for 36 years, working in manufacturing
for about 16 years and in research for 20 years. He worked in the glass
division, primarily in automotive and construction. “When I was in manufacturing, Doris and I moved 14 times,” Jack said. “It was like the Army,
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every two years we got transferred.” The family grew during these
years. They had three daughters: Linda, Lisa, and Laura.
Jack retired from PPG in 1998. He and Doris lived in Pittsburgh until
2010, when they moved to South Carolina to be closer to Linda. On
April 25, 2013, Doris passed away at the age of 76.
Longtime supporters of the University of Illinois, Jack and Doris
understood the value of a college education and the difficult choices
parents and students have to make. “When I went to college,” Jack
said, “my tuition was $100 a semester.” The cost of tuition at the
University of Illinois has risen considerably since the late ‘50s and early
‘60s. Tuition and fees are now $20,178 per year for Illinois residents
and $34,560 for non-residents (2013-2014 figures).
Thanks to the Doris Maroney Krumwiede Scholarship which Jack
has established, a female student in Materials Science and Engineering
will get a financial boost. “I hope that it will be a benefit to those who
couldn’t have afforded it otherwise,” Jack said. The first scholarship will
be awarded at the MatSE Awards Banquet in April 2014.
Clif Bergeron, Doris Krumwiede, Vic Tennery, and Art Friedberg
Jack Krumwiede at his home in Fort Mill, SC. On the table beside him are the ceramic pigs he and Doris
made when they were students in the Ceramics Department.
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First C. M. Wayman Scholarship awarded to metals undergraduate
Professor C. M. Wayman
Alex Wendt
The first C. M. Wayman Scholarship was awarded in the
2013-14 academic year to Alex Wendt, a senior from
Champaign. A graduate of Centennial High School,
Wendt chose MatSE for his major because materials are
integral to all other forms of engineering. His favorite
class, so far, has been Metals Processing (MSE 441). “It
gave us the opportunity to learn about practical processing techniques, and then we got to visit a steel mill at the
end of the semester which made what we learned real
to us,” Wendt said.
In his free time, Wendt plays the violin, banjo, and
mandolin and produces music. He enjoys traveling
around the country attending various racing events and
helps out in the community by doing volunteer work
every month with a Christian ministry.
Wendt is very appreciative of the scholarship he has
received, calling it “a huge privilege.” “It not only makes
me realize that my academic efforts have not gone unnoticed,” he explained, “but it has also been a great help to
me financially. My family doesn’t have a lot of money,
and with my brother and myself both attending the U of I,
every little bit helps!” Following graduation, he hopes to
get a job with a steel mill or manufacturing company.
The C. M. Wayman Scholarship is in memory of
Clarence Marvin Wayman, a metallurgy professor who
taught at the University of Illinois for 39 years. Professor
Wayman passed away in 2007.
Wayman was a leading researcher in the crystallography of martensitic transformations. He documented
a wealth of transmission electron microscopic detail for
a broad range of alloys. He published over 400 papers,
more than 100 of which dealt with shape memory
materials. His honors included the AIME Mathewson
Gold Medal, Eminent Faculty Award of the College of
Engineering at the University of Illinois, and honorary
professorships at two Chinese universities. He was a
Fellow of ASM International, the Metallurgical Society
of AIME, the Institution of Metallurgists, the Japan
Society for Promotion of Science, and the Guggenheim
Foundation.
On a personal note, Wayman was a decorated grillchef and held summer backyard barbecues at his home
for members of his research group and their families.
Professor Carl Altstetter recalled that Wayman won a
prize at the Champaign County Fair in a cook-off. A donor
to the scholarship fund, who had Professor Wayman
for his thesis advisor, said his contributions are “to, in
a small way, honor his memory and acknowledge the
courtesies and kindness he extended to me during my
stay at Illinois.”
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Thank You for
your support!
The student awards highlighted in this issue would not be possible without your support. Gifts to the MatSE
Department provide scholarships for outstanding and in-need students, allow us to continuously improve the quality
of our instructional laboratories, and support special events featured in this issue such as our back-to-school picnic
and annual awards banquet. Alumni gifts also support travel by undergraduate researchers to attend professional
conferences and enable us to provide beneficial services such as our job placement program.
This list of donors includes alumni and friends who have helped maintain MatSE’s outstanding reputation.
Included are individuals who have directed their gifts to MatSE between July 1, 20012, and June 30, 2013. We check
the list carefully, but if we have overlooked you, please contact us so that we can correct our records. Individuals
listed in boldface are first-time donors to MatSE.
Some MatSE alumni choose to support other units of the University of Illinois; those gifts are not listed here but
will be acknowledged by those units. Gifts to “Engineering at Illinois” are directed to the College of Engineering, not
the MatSE Department. If you wish to direct gifts to MatSE, please indicate MatSE on your check and on the donor
form. You can donate online at www.matse.illinois.edu/support or use the form included in this newsletter.
The Engineering Dean’s Club recognizes individuals whose annual giving to engineering departments or the
engineering fund is $1,000 or more over the course of a year. Members receive a Dean’s Club lapel pin to help them
show their pride and commitment to Engineering at Illinois.
For further information about making a gift to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, contact
Allison Winter, [email protected], (217) 244-8307. Thank you for your support!
MatSE Honor Roll
Patrons - $1,000 or more
Gerson Bilow (BS Met ‘65, MS Met ‘67) and
Michele Shoresman
John Broch (BS Met ‘69)
Raymond (BS Cer ‘58, MS Cer ‘59, PhD Cer ‘61)
and Mary Capek
Charles Connors (BS Cer ‘60)
Eleanor Darby
Thomas Darby (MS Met ‘69, PhD Met ‘74)
Richard Friedberg
Miguel Garza Salinas (BS Met ‘61)
James (BS Cer ‘56) and Judith Glasford
Joseph (BS MatSE ‘00) and Casey (BS MatSE ‘00)
Harmon
Nancy Hershberger
David Honecker (BS MatSE ‘01)
James (BS Cer ‘70, MS Cer ‘72, PhD Cer ‘74) and
Mary Humenik
Keith Kappmeyer (BS Cer ‘56, MS Cer ‘57)
Kenneth (BS Cer ‘68, MS Cer ‘69) and
Kathleen Kuna
Lance (MS Met ‘73, PhD Met ‘76) and Patricia
(MS Met ‘76) Labun
Nicholas Mencinger (BS Cer ‘80)
Marie Miller
Thomas (BS Met ’79) and Patricia (BS Met ’79,
MS Met ’86) Miller
G. Ronald (BS Met ‘59) and Margaret Morris
Geoffrey Morris (MS Cer ‘84)
Elizabeth Opila (BS Cer ‘81)
David Pfeifer (BS Met ‘83, MS Met ‘84)
Leonard Radzilowski (PhD MatSE ‘95)
Lawrence (BS Met ‘85, MS Met ‘88)
and Carol Rakers
Anthony Schaffhauser (BS Met ‘63)
David (MS Cer ‘59, PhD Cer ‘61) and Claire Wilcox
Benefactors - $500 to $999
Adelaide Aime and David Cahill
Darryl (BS Met ‘59) and Patricia Albright
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Gmon Antony (PhD Cer ‘93)
Clifton Bergeron (BS Cer ‘50, MS Cer ‘59,
PhD Cer ‘61)
Paul (PhD MatSE ‘98) and Colleen Braun
S. Jay Chey (PhD MatSE ‘96)
Robert Eagan (MS Cer ‘68, PhD Cer ‘71)
Felix and Ciaran (BS Cer ‘90) Fox
Chris Goodbrake (BS Cer ‘70, MS Cer ‘75, PhD
Cer ‘78) and Elizabeth Richards (BS Cer ‘75,
MS Cer ‘77, PhD Cer ‘81)
Paul (BS Cer ‘68) and Elaine Guttmann
Charles Hall (BS Cer ‘59, MS Cer ‘60, PhD Cer ‘62)
Khalid Hattar (PhD MatSE ‘09)
William Hoskins (BS Met ‘50, MS Met ‘51)
Carlos (MS Met ‘77, PhD Met ‘81) and Lubella Levi
George Mah (BS Met ‘60, MS Met ‘62, PhD
Met ‘66)
Paul Osenar (PhD MatSE ‘98)
Gino and Carolyn (BS Cer ‘74) Primus
Michael Rigsbee and Donna Wilson
John Roberts (BS Met ‘65)
Donald Romani (BS Met ‘58)
Gregory (BS Cer ‘85) and Jill Ruschau
Aaron (BS Cer ‘95) and Jennifer Saak
John Schwan III (BS MatSE ‘97)
F. Robert Setlak (BS Met ‘64)
Brett Wilson (BS Cer ‘89)
Sponsors - $100 to $499
Rajnikant Amin (MS Cer ‘60, PhD Cer ‘62)
Robert Clark Anderson (BS Met ‘51)
Michael (PhD Met ‘92) and Carolyn Bench
Alfred Bonfiglio (BS Met ‘60)
Donald (BS Met ‘57, MS Met ‘59, PhD Met ‘62)
and Elaine Boone
Walton Brown III (BS Met ‘77)
James Burk (BS Met ‘73, MS Met ‘74,
PhD Met ‘78)
George Carson Jr. (BS Cer ‘86, MS Met ‘89,
PhD Met ‘92)
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Charles Casey (BS Met ‘60)
Kangguo Cheng (PhD MatSE ‘01) and Na Dai
Albert Chow (BS MatSE ‘95)
Peir-Yung Chu (PhD Cer ‘92)
Elliot Clark (MS Met ‘79, PhD Met ‘86)
Donald and Betty (MS Met ‘82, PhD Met ‘85)
Coulman
Wilford Couts (BS Met ‘54)
Mark (BS Cer ‘80, MS Cer ‘82) and Eileen (BS
Cer ‘81, MS Cer ‘82) De Guire
John DeLuca (BS Cer ‘66, MS Cer ‘67,
PhD Cer ‘69)
Dale Dewald (PhD Met ‘91)
Carl Eggerding (BS Cer ‘72, MS Cer ‘73,
PhD Cer ‘76)
Christopher Ervin (BS Met ‘95)
William (BS Cer ‘87, MS Cer ‘89) and
Jill Fahrenholtz
Robert (BS Cer ‘53) and Carrol Foxall
Mark and Lorraine (MS Cer ‘87, PhD Cer ‘91)
Francis
Matthew (BS Cer ‘92, PhD MatSE ‘96) and
Dana Frey
Zhenbin Ge (PhD MatSE ‘06) and Ruili Fan
Bhaskar and Sudha (MS Cer ‘62) Ghate
Ronald Gibala (MS Met ‘62, PhD Met ‘65)
Mark (Met ‘80) and Beverly Gorman
Craig Gowin (BS MatSE ‘00)
Jeffrey Grabowski (BS Cer ‘96)
Kurt Greissinger (BS MatSE ‘95)
Daniel Griesenauer (BS Cer ‘87)
Salvatore Grisaffe (BS Met ‘57)
David (BS Cer ‘60) and Shirley Hanson
Michael (MS Cer ‘71, PhD Cer ‘74) and
Frances Haselkorn
Stacey Henning (BS Cer ‘89)
Karrie Hinkle (BS Cer ‘87)
James Hobart (BS Met ‘58)
Bryan Hockman (BS Met ‘82)
Lowell (BS Met ‘63) and Ruth Hoffman
Dale Holloman (BS Mining ‘58)
Ernst Huschke (BS Met ‘55)
Ashley John (BS MatSE ‘04)
Gerald Johnson (BS Met ‘62)
Robert Kay (BS Met ‘55)
Betty Kepley
Yong Kwan Kim (PhD MatSE ‘06)
Drew Kofahl (BS Met ‘97)
Martin (BS Met ‘73, MS Met ‘76) Kopchak
and Eileen Roche-Kopchak
Lori Koschak (BS Cer ‘88)
John Koval (BS MatSE ‘09)
James Laird (BS Cer ‘60, MS Cer ‘67, PhD Cer ‘69)
Michael (BS Cer ‘82) and Danielle Lanagan
Charles Leedecke (MS Cer ‘74, PhD Cer ‘77)
Patrick Lenahan (PhD Met ‘80)
Ralph Leonard (BS Met ‘63, MS Met ‘64)
Leiming Li (PhD MatSE ‘02)
Ruichen Liu (PhD Met ‘77) and Hui-Hsing Fu
Robert Loke (BS Cer ‘92)
John (BS Cer ‘77) and Linda Lyman
Delmar Madsen (BS Cer ‘89)
Bruce Markey and Kristin Petersen
Alan Marlor (MS Cer ‘73)
Eric Mast (MS Cer ‘91)
Joseph (BS Cer ‘58) and Margaret Meindl
Keith Meyer (BS Met ‘80)
Roger Miller (BS Cer ‘67)
Sharon Myers (MS Met ‘86)
Terry Myers (BS Met ‘78)
Jerzy Niklewski (BS Cer ‘69, MS Cer ‘71,
PhD Cer ‘74)
Mark Ohls (BS Met ‘82, MS Met ‘85,
PhD Met ‘90)
Manavasi Parthasarathi (MS Met ‘57, PhD Met ‘60)
Dallas Pasley (BS Met ‘61)
Michael (BS Met ‘90) and Elizabeth Pershing
Grant Pomering (BS Cer ‘96)
Robert (BS Met ‘52) and Carol Pounds
Charles Pregaldin Jr. (BS Cer ‘48)
Fred Ramquist Jr. (BS Cer ‘72)
Ranjeet Rao (BS MatSE ‘01, PhD MatSE ‘08)
Jeremy Repede (BS MatSE ‘01)
Louis Reuter IV and Ingrid Reuter
Robert Rita (BS Cer ‘70, MS Cer ‘72, PhD Cer ‘76)
Joan Robertson
Ronald Scanlan (BS Met ‘66)
Julie Schoenung (BS Cer ‘83)
Alvin Shulman (BS Met ‘52)
Richard Skolly (BS Met ‘78)
Nola Smith
Gary Steckel (MS Met ‘74, PhD Met ‘78)
Stuart (PhD Met ‘83) and Christine Stock
Daniel (BS Met ‘61) and Orleen Stoltz
William (BS Met ‘79) and Eileen Taylor
William Tredway (BS Cer ‘81, MS Cer ‘82, PhD
Cer ‘86) and Marie Imon Tredway (BS Cer ‘86)
Joseph Van Nostrand (PhD MatSE ‘96)
Robert Vernetti (BS Cer ‘63, MS Cer ‘64)
Donald Weirauch (MS Cer ‘65, PhD Cer ‘68)
David West (PhD MatSE ‘02)
Charles Williams (MS Cer ‘58)
Kent Yancik (BS Met ‘84)
Matthew Zaluzec (BS Met ‘84, PhD Met ‘91)
Philip (PhD Met ‘79) and Marlene Zapp
Jacob Zindel (BS Met ‘80, PhD Met ‘86)
Contributors – up to $99
Vasantha Amarakoon (MS Cer ‘80, PhD Cer ‘84)
Robert Bieniasz (BS Cer ‘69)
Rodney Bond (BS Met ‘67)
John (BS Cer ‘88, MS Cer ‘90) and Joann Bonini
Edward Brown (BS Met ‘83)
Thomas Carlson (BS Cer ‘67, MS Cer ‘72)
Yiren Chen (MS MatSE ‘01)
Kent Coughlin
Robert (BS Cer ‘49, MS Cer ‘50) and
Carolyn Degenkolb
Joseph Dow (BS Met ‘62)
Fred (BS Met ‘64) and Margaret Fabricant
Susan (BS Met ‘84) and Jonathan Freeman
James Hanafee (BS Met ‘58, MS Met ‘60)
John (MS Met ‘92) and Marsha Haworth
Warren Holland (BS Met ‘53)
Dee Honn (BS Cer ‘77)
Nathan Hood (BS MatSE ‘96)
Wendy Howell (BS Cer ‘91)
Scott Hughes (BS Met ‘74, MS Met ‘75)
Steven Jenkel (BS Met ‘82)
Edward Kaminski Jr. (BS Met ‘50)
Joseph (BS Cer ‘81) and Florence Kaplan
David (BS Met ‘82, MS Met ‘85) and Lourdes Kline
Donald Kraft (BS Cer ‘52)
Sam (BS Met ‘48, MS Met ‘49) and Pauline Leber
Kevin Leedy (MS Met ‘93, PhD Met ‘97)
Arnold Litman (BS Met ‘46)
Todd Martin (BS MatSE ‘03, MS MatSE ‘05)
Vito Mitkus (BS Met ‘52)
William Muhlstadt (BS Cer ‘62, MS Cer ‘68)
Richard Novak (BS Cer ‘67, MS Cer ‘69,
PhD Cer ‘72)
Anthony (MS Met ‘71, PhD Met ‘77) and
Jacqueline Polak
Bryan Pratt (BS MatSE ‘98)
Robert Radtke (BS Cer ‘63)
Kyle and Michelle (BS MatSE ’04) Ring
Harold (BS Met ‘53, MS Mining ‘56) and
Irene Rolseth
Gary Schnittgrund (BS Cer ‘70, MS Cer ‘71,
PhD Cer ‘75)
Vanece Seitzinger
Richard and Pam Siegel
F. Xavier Spiegel (MS Met ‘63)
James Stephan (BS Cer ‘66)
Antoni Taglialavore (BS Cer ‘84)
Lakeisha Walker (BS MatSE ‘01)
Edward and Maureen Wells
Jane Wiebe
Robert Williams (BS Cer ‘66)
Joseph Yadron (BS Met ‘61)
Donald Zebrauskas (BS Met ‘76)
Yuncheng Zhong (PhD MatSE ‘02)
Peter Ziolkowski (BS Met ‘83)
Melvin Zuckerman (BS Met ‘49)
“I’d like to thank the alumni for their donations.
Without the scholarship that they made
possible, the cost of out-of-state tuition would
have made it difficult for me to come to the U
of I. After graduation, I hope to go on to grad
school in materials science.”
Olivia Rogers, Hamer Scholar
Sophomore from Centerville, OH
“Every student comes from a different background
and has a unique financial situation while in school.
I know that, personally, the Harry J. Beckemeyer
Scholarship has helped me not only to pay for college,
but has improved my college experience. Especially for
Engineering majors at UIUC, having to spend less time
worrying about how to pay for college means more
time available for learning and taking advantages of all
the fantastic resources at the University.”
Jay Fleischman, Beckemeyer Scholar
Sophomore from Lincolnshire, IL
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The Presidents Council
The President’s Council is the University’s
highest donor recognition organization.
Membership is extended to those who have
made outright gifts of $25,000 or more in their
lifetimes, as well as those who have made
deferred gifts of $50,000 or more. More than
a society of generous contributors, Presidents
Council members actively support our mission
by lending their professional experience and
input to University officials. For more information about this program, contact the University
of Illinois Foundation at 217-333-0810.
The following alumni and friends of
the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering are members of the
Presidents Council.
Carl and Nadja Altstetter
Paul and Judith Baker
Lois Beals
Clifton Bergeron (BS Cer ‘50, MS Cer ‘59,
PhD Cer ‘61)
Roy Bickelhaupt (BS Cer ‘50, PhD Cer ‘63)
Gerson Bilow (BS Met ‘65, MS Met ‘67)
Freda Birnbaum
Marie Bohl
Gerald Brighton
James (BS Met ‘73, MS Met ‘74, PhD Met ‘78)
and Barbara Burk
Raymond (BS Cer ‘58, MS Cer ‘59, PhD Cer ‘61)
and Mary Capek
Charles Connors (BS Cer ‘60)
Chester (BS Cer ‘62) and Lani Connors
William J. Croisant, Jr.
Thomas Darby (MS Met ‘69, PhD Met ‘74)
Grace Dayton
Mary DeBoer
Jon Dickson
Russ Duttweiler (BS Met ‘60)
George Emmons
Peter and Susan Feuille
Howard (BS Met ‘55) and Kay Friedman
James Gaebe (BS Met ‘59)
Steven (BS Cer ‘81) and Pamela Grant
William and Elaine Hall
Robert (BS Cer ‘56, MS Cer ‘57, PhD Cer ‘59)
and Ann Hallse
Donald Hamer (BS Cer ‘45)
David Hamilton Jr. and Mary Melcher
Lowell (BS Met ‘63) and Ruth Hoffman
Se June Hong
James (BS Cer ‘70, MS Cer ‘72, PhD Cer ‘74) and
Mary Jane Humenik
Eric and Naomi Jakobsson
Harold Keiser (BS Met ‘72)
John Krumwiede (BS Cer ‘60)
Kenneth Kuna (BS Cer ‘68, MS Cer ‘69)
Ronald Larson (BS Met ‘58)
James Lochridge (BS Cer ‘47)
Robert (BS Met ‘59) and Karen Luetje
James (MS Met ‘83, PhD Met ‘86) and
Mary McMahon
Robert Miller
G. Ronald (BS Met ‘59) and Margaret Morris
Robert Musur (BS Met ‘74)
Tom Nielsen (BS Cer ‘59)
William O’Neill
Howard and Jean Osborn
William Payne (BS Cer ‘63, MS Cer ‘64)
Burton (BS Met ‘47) and Barbara Person
John Petry
Gino and Carolyn (BS Cer ‘74) Primus
Lawrence (BS Met ‘85, MS Met ‘88) and
Carol Rakers
Dennis (BS Met ‘73) and Debra Reid
Thomas Remec (MS Met ‘83) and Susan
Morisato
Donald and Gay Roberts
Charles Schenk (BS Met ‘49)
Grover and June Seitzinger
Nola Smith
Darrell Socie
Hermia Soo
Joy Thornton-Walter
Sheryl (BS Met ‘80) and Bruce Tipton
Hua-Ching (PhD Met ‘68) and Ta-Tung Tong
Michael Walker and C. K. Gunsalus
David (MS Cer ‘59, PhD Cer ‘61)
and Claire Wilcox
Dorothy Williams
Company and Foundation Support
If you work for a company that offers a matching
gift program, please be sure to include a matching gift form with your donation. For more information on matching gifts, contact the University
of Illinois Foundation at (217) 333-0675.
Amin Family Trust
Cardinal Health Foundation
Caterpillar Foundation
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
GE Foundation
Global Services Associates, Inc.
IBM Matching Grants Program
Intel Foundation
John Deere Foundation
John Roberts Agency
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Contribution Fund
Lockheed Martin Foundation
Maptek Mexicana
Margaret Broch Foundation
Michelin Americas Research & Development
Pepsico Foundation
PGM LLC
Technology International, Inc.
The Boeing Company
The Morris Family Charitable Foundation
Thomas Associates, Inc.
Trester Metallurgical Corporation
Tyco Electronics
Tyco International Inc.
United Technologies Corporation
United Way of Central New Mexico
United Way Silicon Valley
Donald Hamer inducted into Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame
Dept. Head David Cahill and Donald Hamer
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The Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame recognizes Illinois engineering alumni and affiliates
who have significant achievements in leadership,
entrepreneurship, and innovation of great impact to
society. This year’s Hall of Fame inductees included
MatSE alumnus and benefactor Donald Hamer
(BS Cer ’45). Hamer is the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of State of the Art, the leading
American supplier of high reliability thick- and thinfilm resistive components for biomedical, communications, aerospace, and defense industries.
“My 70-year journey from going to high school
to receiving the University of Illinois Hall of Fame
Award was partly (mostly?) the result of a long
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series of good luck happenings,” Hamer said.
He was the first person in his family to graduate
from high school and had no plans for college.
“Almost no one in our town went to college. I
had no thoughts about college, just assuming
that I would work for my father in his gasoline
station/garage business.”
In his senior year, the principal of his tiny rural
high school told his parents that they should
send him to college because he was very bright.
The principal suggested going to the University
of Illinois as an engineering student, “specifically
to enroll in Ceramic Engineering because of
its bright future in plastic materials (plastics?)”
Hamer, continued
Making lab
instruction
user-friendly
Hamer enrolled in Ceramic Engineering and discovered
ceramics were not about plastics, but loved every bit—
the math, physics, labs, everything.
After graduation from the University of Illinois, Donald
Hamer served in the Navy and then had a series of
ceramic engineering jobs for a decade or so. “I took a job
in Chicago with a small electronic component company
to put them into the ceramic capacitor business,
because they thought (correctly) that ceramic capacitors
had a great future,” Hamer said.
He earned his MBA at the University of Chicago and
relocated to Pennsylvania, where he was chief engineer
at the Erie Technological Products Plant. During this time,
he earned a second B.S. degree in electrical engineering
from Penn State University.
In 1969, he founded State of the Art, Inc., which soon
evolved into a leading manufacturer of high-reliability
resistors in the microelectronics market. In 1980, the
company developed nickel barriers that virtually eliminated solder leaching problems, an improvement which
became the industry standard. In 1987, State of the Art
became the first manufacturer of quality military-grade
chip resistors to “S-level” reliability standards (fewer than
one failure per 100 million hours of operation).
A noted philanthropist, Hamer funded the establishment of the Hamer Small Business Initiative at the
University of Chicago in 2004. He has strongly supported
initiatives at both Illinois (including a professorship,
fellowship, scholarship, and renovation of the undergraduate materials laboratories) and Penn State (including the
Donald W. Hamer Maps Library and a professorship). He
has served on the boards of Clear Water Conservancy,
the Centre County Historical Society, and the Palmer Art
Museum.
He is a dedicated supporter of conservation, helping
to establish a 640-acre prairie restoration project near his
hometown of Byron, Illinois, and with his wife, Marisa
Bednar, donating $2.5 million to protect the West Branch
Wilderness Area in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. In
1992, he was awarded the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation
Award in a White House ceremony.
“So what a piece of good luck to have a high school
principal who would push me into Ceramic Engineering
at the University of Illinois,” Hamer said, “which made
me a grateful and enthusiastic engineer equipped to
be successful—and what a series of other good luck
happenings has blessed my career ever since.”
Thanks to the addition of instructional videos and an
etextbook, the core undergraduate instructional laboratories in MatSE are becoming more user-friendly. MSE
307, MSE 308, and MSE 405 are required of all students
majoring in Materials Science and Engineering, and the
labs generally have an enrollment of approximately 90
students each semester. For years, the lab courses have
been taught in the traditional format, with a professor
lecturing on the material and students performing the
lab days later. In MSE 307 and MSE 308, three labs run
simultaneously, while in MSE 405, six labs run at the
same time. Unfortunately, that means many students
will go through the experiments without having heard
the lecture first.
With the introduction of videos and etextbook,
students can develop an understanding of the
background material for each lab independent of the
professor. “Along with traditional course material, we
will be offering the students the chance to use and view
experiment procedure videos, video lectures from the
faculty, and even links to outside references and safety
information,” explained Nicole Robards, Instructional Lab
Coordinator.
Funding for video production was secured through
a proposal submitted by Matt Sherburne and Nicole
Robards. Videos are an integral part of the etextbook.
Having 24-hour online access to the course videos
allows students who may be unclear on a concept the
opportunity to return to that specific concept and review
the videos of interest.
The etextbook benefits the professor as well as the
student. It can free up time the professor spends on
coursework preparation, since the lectures are online.
Students who have watched the video and read the
material online prior to the lab will be in a better position
to ask the professor more informed questions about
material they don’t understand. The professor can also
make notes in the margin of the etextbook to give
students extra feedback.
Each lab section is led by a graduate student who
often does not have experience with the experiments he
or she will be teaching. Viewing the videos and material
prior to the lab helps prepare the graduate TAs. It allows
the graduate students to have a better understanding
of what to expect the undergraduate students to know
when starting a lab.
Videos and audio used in the etextbook can be closedcaptioned for hearing-impaired students, and the content
is designed to work in a web browser making it is avail-
able to visually impaired students using screen reading
software and devices.
“Students are finding the video lectures and the fact
that all of the material is in one place to be the most
beneficial part of eText,” Sherburne said. “I think just
putting everything in one location has made it easier for
the students to focus on the material instead of searching for the needed material.”
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Class Notes
Woodrow Carpenter and Gay Caldwell
Woodrow Carpenter (BS Cer ’39) and
weight materials, new joining technologies, heat treatment processes
his daughter, Gay Caldwell, gave MatSE
and coatings.
advancement staff member Allison Winter
Jeff Finch (BS MatSE ’00) is on active duty in the Air Force. He and
a tour of the W.W. Carpenter Enamel
his wife, Jackie, are preparing their children (Sebastien, 7; Hadassah, 5;
Foundation Museum on her recent visit
Quinn, almost 2) for another move next year.
to Kentucky. The museum is a privately
Steve Frisbie (BS MatSE ’00) is a Process Engineer at GE in Mattoon, IL.
owned collection dedicated to works
He was previously employed with Motorola in Arizona.
of enamel art and craft, from historical
Jason Nicholas (MS MatSE ’03) has
antique Limoges paintings to a large collection of contemporary works
received a National Science Foundation
by some of the finest artists in the field. The museum, located in Cold
CAREER award. The funds will support his
Spring, KY, houses over 600 pieces of enamel art.
research to reduce operating temperatures,
Ron Morris (BS Met ’59) has
improve performance, lower costs and extend
received a Loyalty Award from
the operational lifetime of Solid Oxide Fuel
the University of Illinois Alumni
Association. He was honored
Ron Morris and Lynn Chaney,
UI Alumni Association
Cells. Nicholas received his Ph.D. from the
Jason Nicholas
University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.
for his dedicated service and
Following post-doctorate work at Northwestern University, he joined
contributions to the University
the Michigan State University Department of Chemical Engineering and
of Illinois. From 2003 to 2008,
Materials Science in 2010.
Morris served on the University
Jonathan Hollander (BS MatSE ’05) is Business Development
of Illinois Alumni Association
Manager for Applied Biorefinery Sciences in upstate New York. ABS
Board of Directors. Prior to that
produces liquid fuels and paper products from woody biomass. The
appointment, he served on the
company spun off from SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and
College of Engineering Advisory
Forestry, where Hollander is an adjunct professor.
Board (CEAB). He is a member
Lindsay Schubel (BS MatSE ’05) is at Rubicon Technology in Batavia,
and current chairman of the MatSE Department’s Senior Advisory
IL, making synthetic sapphire.
Committee (SAC). During his service on the SAC, he has advised the
Sandie Cheung (BS MatSE ’06) married
department on curricu-
Jeff Hallman on May 21, 2013, in Seattle,
lum, fundraising, and
WA. She is employed with Boeing.
student recruitment. He
Michael Odlyzko (BS MatSE ’09) dropped
has also given seminars
by the U of I campus after attending a
to MatSE students about
microscopy conference in Indianapolis. He
his experience in industry
and management.
is finishing up his Ph.D. at the University of
Minnesota and is recently married.
Jim Polak, Tim Steltzer, and Lowell Hoffman
Lowell Hoffman (BS Met ’63) hosted a University of Illinois
Lisa Mazzocco (BS MatSE ’10) is the
Foundation event at the Governors Club
Sandie and Jeff Hallman
in Chapel Hill, NC, in April. The guest
River Technology, a robotics start-up in San Francisco, CA.
speaker was Tim Steltzer, a professor of
Meghan McKelvey (BS MatSE ’10) is Sr. Design Engineer at EN
Physics.
Engineering in their metallurgy group.
Strategy and Execution Manager at Blue
Ava Schuckle (maiden name Hoa
Bob Hallse (BS,
Trinh) (BS Met ’96) runs a consulting
Cer ‘56, MS Cer
business in San Diego, CA. Ava Trinh
‘57, PhD Cer ‘59)
Consulting, Inc., is a technical sales and
business development company with
and his wife, Ann,
Barrett Schuckle
had lunch with
primary experience in the engineering and technology arena, retail and
Department Head
consumer markets, property management, event management and
David Cahill in
non-profit organizations. Her son, Barrett Brian Schuckle, was born
Palm Springs, CA.
March 14, 2013, and is already an Illini fan.
Cory Padfield (BS Met ’96) was recently promoted to Lead Materials
David Cahill with Bob and Ann Hallse
Engineer-R&D for AAM North America in Detroit. He works on light-
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Calling all MatSE couples
Are you and your spouse both alumni of the MatSE Department? As you can tell from the donor honor roll in this issue and the article on Jack and Doris
Krumwiede, we have several alumni who met when they were students in our department and got married. We would like to feature stories of MatSE alumni
couples in our summer issue. Please send your story to the Editor, Cindy Brya, at [email protected], or mail it to 1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801.
Julie Vroman (BS MatSE ’10) and Matt Menke (BS MatSE ’10) were married on May 18, 2013, in Wheaton, IL. Julie is employed at
General Mills, and Matt is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota. They live in Minneapolis, MN.
Alissa Cote (BS MatSE ’10) and Ben Pierce (BS MatSE ’10) were married
on June 29, 2013, in Palatine, IL. They live in South Burlington, VT, and are
both employed at IBM.
MatSE Student-Alumni Dinner
MatSE students networked with
alumni visitors at a progressive
dinner on October 18 at Escobar’s
in downtown Champaign. Alumni
participants included Jim Burk
(BS 1973, MS 1974, PhD 1978),
Angela Gonzales (BS MatSE ‘07),
Eric Hammill (BS MatSE ‘00), Kate
Jakubas (BS MatSE ‘06), David
Moore (BS Met ‘89), Howard
Savage (BS Met ‘84, MS Met
‘88, PhD Met ‘91), Kyle Wilcoxen
(BS 2006), and Joyce Yamamoto
(BS Cer ‘84). Students rotated
from table to table between
courses, meeting alumni from a
variety of industries. The progressive networking dinner was
such a success that the MatSE
Department plans to hold another
dinner in 2014.
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The University of Illinois chapter of Material Advantage received the Chapter
of Excellence Award at MS&T’13
Undergraduates filled the lecture hall at Material Advantage’s first meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year. The guest speaker for
the meeting was Prof. John Rogers.
Illinois MatSE Alumni: Material
Advantage
Do you wish you had the opportunity to check out the
real world while you were a student? Would you like to
student
share your insight and experience with current students
chapter
seeks alumni to give them a boost in their future careers? I encourage
you to connect with Material Advantage (MA, formerly
support
known as Undergraduate Materials Organization). This semester MA sent seven students to the
Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2013 conference. We drove 15 hours to Montreal at a cost of around
$6,000. Most of this cost came directly out of the
pockets of the attendees, with some funding from the
MatSE Department, MA auction funds, and the registered student organization office. This semester we also
had a very successful site visit to Boeing in St. Louis,
and we hosted a Young Alumni Tech Talk for all MatSE
undergraduates.
We hope to offer more opportunities for students to
see thermodynamic and kinetics of materials in practice. In order to do so, we would love your support! How
can you help? Your financial support will help MA afford
to send more students to attend conferences such as
MS&T. To donate, specify “student conference travel
support” on your gift to the MatSE Fund. We are
constantly brainstorming about new ways to raise funds,
and donations from alumni would be very much appreciated. If you are not able to give financially at this time,
we encourage you to return to campus to share your job
experiences or help MA arrange a visit to your workplace
so students can see how alumni are using their Materials
Science and Engineering degree. Please reach out to
our current MA Executive Board if you would like to help
(contact information below).
Thank you so much, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Meher Bharucha
Material Advantage Professional
and Corporate Development Chair
[email protected]
(507)319-2165
Stephanie Nemec
Material Advantage
President
[email protected]
(815)403-9705
Save the Date! Engineering Open House (EOH)
March 14-15, 2014
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Ferguson
recognized,
continued
“In an application to the structural HIV polyprotein
Gag, the model predictions are in remarkable agreement
with in vitro fitness measurements and clinical data
tracking viral evolution in human hosts,” Ferguson said.
Heartened by these validations, the researchers have
used their models to computationally design a candidate
HIV vaccine formulation predicted to have high efficacy
that is currently being tested in mice. A research
article describing the work was published in the highly
regarded journal Immunity (Immunity 38 606-617 (2013))
and highlighted in two commentary articles.
The Ferguson Lab continues to refine and apply this
methodology to Hepatitis C, another devastating virus
for which no vaccine exists.
“It is our hope that the innovative application of thermodynamic models to computational immunology will
enable a powerful in silico approach to accelerate trial
and error experimental vaccine design, and ultimately
help alleviate the global suffering caused by infectious
disease,” said Ferguson.
Ferguson joined the faculty of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. He received his Ph.D.
in chemical and biological engineering from Princeton
University in 2010 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow
at MIT before coming to Illinois.
The awards ceremony in San Francisco was one of
a series of events organized by IChemE to celebrate
excellence, innovation and achievement in the chemical
and process industries across the world.
“The IChemE awards program has been running
for 20 years, and this year attracted a record number
of entries from all over the world,” said Andy Furlong,
IChemE director of policy and communication. “North
America is responsible for producing some of the world’s
best chemical engineers and all of this year’s winners
fully deserve their accolades.”
IChemE awards were also presented to a team from
the Fraser Stoddart lab at Northwestern University and to
Quentin Baker from BakerRisk.
In Memoriam
Roderick “Rod” Schutt (BS Cer ’70) passed away
June 12, 2013. He retired from General Shale in March
2012, after 42 years of service in the clay pipe and
brick industry. He was an avid sportsman, an active
volunteer at his church, in local prison ministry and
with the Cherokee Rod and Gun Club. He is survived
by his wife of 39 years, Donna Tyalor Schutt.
Flashback
photo
identified
Several alumni and
friends contacted the
MatSE Alumni News
Editor to correctly
identify Carl Altstter
in the flashback photo
that was printed in the
summer 2013 issue.
Gerald Johnson (BS
Met ’62) was able to
identify 5 of the professors pictured in this
photo from 1964. Here
is the photo again, with
names supplied by Carl
Altstetter.
1 – Tom Read
2 – Marvin Wayman(?)
3 – Barney Ricketts
4 – Bob Bohl
5 – Carl Altstetter
6 – Earl Eckel
7 – Walter Bruckner
8 – Ted Rowland
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MatSE-Intel Dinner
MatSE-Intel Dinner
In October, Britt Turkot (BS Met
’90, MS Met ’92, PhD MatSE ’96)
hosted a dinner party for MatSE
alumni employed at Intel. The event
was held at her home in Hillsboro,
OR. MatSE Department Head David
Cahill was present and gave alumni
an update on the department.